Founder and Managing Director, Mr. N.K. Gupta has 40+ years of experience in business and technology development. He developed the first commercially viable microporous membranes in India. Prior to founding Advanced Microdevices Pvt. Ltd. (MDI) in 1976, he had no exposure of producing or using membranes and he single handedly developed the complete membrane technology. Currently he spearheads the research and development at mdi and provides the focus to constantly develop and manufacture customized and innovative products.

Mr. Gupta received his BE degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh in Electronics Engineering in 1970 and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, USA. From 1971-1975 he worked as a Design Engineer (MOS ICs) with American Microsystem Inc (AMI), Santa Clara, USA. AMI was one of the founding companies of the Silicon Valley and Mr. Gupta performed excellent work in helping develop the first calculators. He also worked as a Scientist at Stanford University, California, USA.

Mr. Gupta has been awarded Outstanding Engineer Award by Governor of Haryana for his pioneering work in developing membranes in India.